THE NEW YORKER MAR.BLE. HALLS [AFTER A VISIT TO THE CHRYSLER AND DAILY NEWS BUILDINGS, AND UPON READING OF STILL MORE MAG- NIFICENT TOWERS YET TO COME, WRITTEN AS IN A DREAM] O N October 17 THE NEW YORKER will move into its new one-hundred-story building at 4+5 Riverside Drive. This skyscraper occupies the site of the old Temple Solom Ishkashai, which the editors caused to be torn down for one reason and another. It will be three hundred and four stories high, and will cost a sum in the neighborhood of thirty-seven million dollars. Except for the win- dows it will be built entirely of green glass. Probably the most interesting feature of the New Yorker Building will be ...... the lubby, which will be designed to represent a scene in Hell. In the centre there will be a railed-off pit con taInIng an electric incinera- tor operatIng on a principle that n 0 bod y under- stands. Eve r y twenty-eight minutes an em- ployee will be thrown in to this pit and publicly incinerated. It is thought that this will be a new ex- perience even to the most blasé New Yorkers. Around the walls there will be murals typical of the general confusion,. such as "The Execution of Gerald Chap- " d " c I man an a - vin Coolidge An- noying the In- dians." These will be executed in feathers and bent wire, just pasted on the wall. Mod- ern. Surmounting them, on the ceil- in g in fact, will be the following in- scription in red ,.Co";!'. . .:D .,(Æ; H' ':' "A::; 1i""'" :--:.: 7 .-..-. ,, and green electric lights: "A thousand years are as a single day, in the sight of the least of these, thy sparrows." The floor of the lobby will be .black glass and the signs of the zodiac and other con- ...... fusing symbols are to be inlaid in solid gold. Miss Evangeline Adams will have a booth where she will cast horo- scopes and explain anything about the lobby that you don't understand. Dur- ing working hours, an orchestra, sitting on a revolving glass platform which will be suspended from the ceiling, will play "Hello Centra] Give Me No '$;#i 'J{ :':"-f ::-:t'8: :: :: : . . } Á' ;:" ..' ",: ,.&, (' .... .- ,. c . /' .' .. ,:'(. >,.: . \ ' :, : (' , ::: : ;:; ...' .' .,..": , tit,:' :. ,';;.,t ......:..... 'Y.',:,:,:':/', .......;.1t;W' :,. .:'. ');i:;' :,::k .=:..:';" :::':'v . "t:. : .. ;w , --':;: :' : ':::f I t4 ; ";fi<" ...w....,... ',,,,, :'. ,,:,.. . iP '<:=::': -- ;.:.;. :l "F ....::$ ,..",': .:A .', ' 19 Man's Land." rrhe orchestra will con- sist entirely of saxophones. This enter- tainment will he continuous, and free. The building is to be fuur hundred and ten stories high and. will cost seventv- fi ve million dollars. The elevators will also be solid gold and it will take them a week to get from the lobby to the five-hundred- and-tenth floor, where they will turn around and come back. They will be operated by young ladies in one-piece bathing suits who will serve tea and sing love songs at every hundredth fluor. In -\;:. \ '..,. \ '^ I, r. : :..;.,..,"';, ".:J.t "'":.:. . iß:! . r ,:" ,1 ,,rÎi': ...:it-.. .. .)"-. ...)-- . '7...'j-,,;O....:;::":i. /'" ..........:- .:::: : , ':" "'N' h' --7 eel don't want to be a wet blanket, girlie, but there's people waiting for this mail."